Real Talk
REAL TALK
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Real Talk - Community
A curriculum-based, open platform where individuals ages 13-17 meet on a weekly basis
and openly discuss the issues and/or barriers that they face.
Relatable dialogue is created and guided to encourage conversation among participants that allows them to develop their own solutions to the challenges they face, utilizing a Solution Focused and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach.
The goal of Real Talk is to allow youth a safe space to open up and begin to work through issues that affect their daily lives. Dialogue with individuals that share in your reality, collectively delving into self while meeting these individuals where they are, assisting to promote healthy ways of thinking to create personal self-empowerment. The goal is not to teach what to think, but how to think.
Real Talk - Residential
This program takes place inside of Kent County Juvenile Detention’s Residential Unit(s).
These groups are focused around 3 main training approaches: Cognitive Behavioral Training, Trauma-Informed Training, and Solution-Focused Training.
Over a 90-120 day time period we focus on changing youths' attitudes and behavior by focusing on the thoughts, images, beliefs, and attitudes that are held (a person's cognitive processes), and how this process relates to the way a person behaves.
An expected outcome of this method is identifying, processing, and addressing past traumatic experiences or triggers, after identifying tools to personally de-escalate situations, and learning how to apply those tools as circumstances occur.
With this method, combined with solution-focused training directed at the ‘now,' we concentrate on helping individuals move toward the future they want.
Real Talk - Juvenile Detention
Facilitated to Kent County Juvenile Detention’s general population weekly,
we stay true to the foundational training approaches of RIL:
Dialectical Behavioral Training, Cognitive Behavioral Training, Trauma Informed Training and Solution Focused Training. This is a time of uncertainty for many youths and they often experience a lot of emotional stress and instability during this time. A focused approach on Dialectical Behavioral Training is implemented with a laser focus on emotional regulation.
